“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.”

So long as I know what’s expected of me, I can manage.”
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.” 8) Perspective.Sometimes its all about perspective. If you look for the negative, that’s all you’ll find. Try looking for positive things in your life. You will find some. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

ReviewI think that on second reading, and reading critically, there will obviously be morer to discover from the book. I think that reading theoretically for my lit course did not remove any of the beauty of the book, although I found Colin even more irritating the second time round. It was a good and quick, enjoyable read that still has echoes from my childhood. It is full of great ideas when considering children’s fiction theoretically but, more importantly, thsi kind of reading does not remove the strength of the book, in fact, it improves it. This review is terribly written but I’m just about to drop off (as are my feet) after 10 work placement so you’ll have to forgive me not being able to do justice to the book. “One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one’s head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one’s heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in...

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...instantly tamed, and he counts a fox, a crow, and two wild squirrels among his pets. He is the brother of Martha and the son of Susan.
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...The
SecretGarden
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Frances Eliza HodgsonBurnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The SecretGarden (winner of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959), A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Born Frances Eliza Hodgson, she lived in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. When her father died, the family was forced to sell their home and move to Salford. When she was sixteen, the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. There she began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines at the age of nineteen. In 1872 she married Swan Burnett. They lived in Paris for two years, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels, the first of which That Lass o' Lowries, was published to good reviews. The publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy in 1886 made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce...

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...THE SECRETGARDEN SUMMARY
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CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT II MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY III ACROSS THE MOOR IV MARTHA V THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR VI "THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYING--THERE WAS!" VII THE KEY TO THE GARDEN VIII THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY IX THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANY ONE EVER LIVED IN X DICKON XI THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH XII "MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?" XIII "I AM COLIN" XIV A YOUNG RAJAH XV NEST BUILDING XVI "I WON'T!" SAID MARY XVII A TANTRUM XVIII "THA' MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME" XIX "IT HAS COME!" XX "I SHALL LIVE FOREVER--AND EVER--AND EVER!" XXI BEN WEATHERSTAFF XXII WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN
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...THE SECRETGARDEN
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'We're alike, you and me,' old Ben Weatherstaff said to
Mary. 'We're not pretty to look at and we're both very
disagreeable.'
Poor Mary! Nobody wants her, nobody likes her. Her
parents have died, and she is sent home from India to live
in her uncle's house in Yorkshire. It is a big old house, with
nearly a hundred rooms, but most of them are shut and
locked. Mary is cross and bored, and lonely. There is
nothing to do all day, and no one to talk to, except old Ben
Weatherstaff, the gardener.
But then Mary learns about the secretgarden. The door is
locked and hidden, and the key is lost. No one has been
inside the secretgarden for ten years - except the robin,
who flies over the wall. Mary watches the robin, and
wonders where the key i s . . .
And then there is that strange crying in the night,
somewhere in the house. It sounds like a child c r y i n g . . .
FrancesHodgsonBurnett was born in 1849 and died in
1924, From the age of sixteen she lived mostly in the USA,
but often returned to England. She was a writer all her life
and wrote many books, but The SecretGarden is her most
famous story.
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